soixante

See also: souaixante

French

French cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : soixante     Ordinal : soixantième

Etymology

From Old French soissante, seixante, from Latin sexāgintā, from Proto-Indo-European *sweḱsḱomt, from earlier *swéḱs-dḱomt (“six-ten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /swa.sɑ̃t/

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Noun

soixante m (plural soixante)

1. sixty

Numeral

soixante

1. sixty

Related terms

• six

Further reading

• “soixante”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.